User talk:MannedTooth

Requesting Chinese wikis of ONI
Hi MannedTooth. Recently, I heard from another source that there are some translated pages of the ONI wiki. It is surprising for me as I used the English version of this Wiki but I never found an entrance to the Chinese translation. I notice that there a lot of pages that got translated already. I also translated a few pages recently but I'm discouraged as I realized that they can not be reached easily.

In my experience, the most common way that I found a Chinese wiki is the "In other languages" section of the sidebar. As far as I know, in order to add there, we have to create a Chinese version of the whole wiki, just like the Russian and Portugal ones (as listed on the Duplicant page). By contrast, I can only try to add "/zh" to check if there is a Chinese version of a certain page.

In addition, another benefit of creating Chinses ONI wiki rather than translate pages based on the translation guidelines is that the page name can be translated rather than using "&#123;&#123;en_name&#125;&#125;/zh"

In case that you are not familiar with ONI, a new DLC of it is under early access which brings more traffic recently. Therefore, I believe it is promising to start a Chinese ONI wiki. DDElephant (talk) 02:38, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * The Chinese wiki can be created by going here. Once that is done, we can add interwiki links to link both wikis together. MannedTooth (talk) 04:49, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your quick response. I just followed the link provided and created a zh wiki with the same domain. There are 2 additional questions:
 * 1. Are there any ways to transfer pages automatically? Or I have to CP the source markup for each page manually.
 * 2. I'm relatively new to wiki (with some programming background through). Is it possible to copy the style (the Gamepedia style) of the website?
 * --DDElephant (talk) 06:37, 12 May 2021 (UTC)


 * You're very much welcome! Are you saying there is already a Chinese wiki about ONI that exists? If so, we should use it and make it better instead.
 * 1. Yeah, it is possible for staff (such as me) to export/import a list of pages from one wiki to another.
 * 2. Unfortunately, no, the "Gamepedia layout" is going away in favor of the upcoming UCX layout in a few weeks. So all wikis will share the same layout eventually.


 * MannedTooth (talk) 03:38, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * There was no Chinese wiki about ONI. I meant that I just created one according to your suggestion. It is at: https://oxygennotincluded.fandom.com/zh/.
 * It is appreciated that you will be able to help me transfer the pages. Thanks in advance.
 * DDElephant (talk) 05:29, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Oh right, I misread your previous message, in any case, I'm glad I could help you! :) MannedTooth (talk) 06:32, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot! Let me know when you finishing transferring those */zh pages. It would be helpful if images used by those pages can also be copied to the Chinese wiki as well. DDElephant (talk) 07:41, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * To help me help you, could you put all the pages you'd want to transfer into a single category? Like Category:Chinese Translations? Thanks a lot! MannedTooth (talk) 04:45, 14 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I assume that most of the translated pages were put in Category:ZH_translation by previous contributors according to the translation guidelines. With that said, there may be some pages ending with /zh which are not in the category. I guess those outsides of the category can be moved manually after your moving good pages (so that there will be much fewer results when I searching */zh ). DDElephant (talk) 06:42, 14 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hey there, I just exported/imported all pages from that category, please check on the wiki that everything is working fine. I'm noticing a lot of issues with some templates because wikis on Fandom do not make use of Cargo, you should start by checking that first. Thanks! :) MannedTooth (talk) 21:08, 14 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your brilliant work! I noticed that they have been imported and I will try my best to fix them asap. Besides, I have 5 more questions:
 * 1. Do you have any idea that which extension(s) should I use to replace Cargo?
 * 2. Is it possible to batch-copy images used by pages you just exported/imported?
 * 3. I noticed that you deleted the ZH_translation category on those pages. Is it possible to add it back (or another category like "imported_from_en") so I know that pages in this category were directly transferred from the English wiki and probably need to be fixed?
 * 4. Will you enable the interlanguage link feature for the new Chinese wiki, or I should request it by myself?
 * 5. Similar to 4, for other administrative requests/questions, it is better for me to talk to you directly, or I should contact "general Fandom staff" as a normal wiki admin.
 * DDElephant (talk) 21:37, 14 May 2021 (UTC)


 * You're welcome!
 * 1. There's currently no database alternative for that, the closest would be either Scribunto along with JSON or DPL.
 * 2. 4. & 5. Unfortunately, I do not manage the non-English wikis, there are other people dedicated to them, so yeah, you can reach out to them on their talk pages or directly on the Fandom/Gamepedia Discord server.
 * 3. I deleted the category because it didn't make much sense to keep it on the target wiki since all pages are supposed to be in Chinese from the get go. But you can check the logs and see all pages I imported.

MannedTooth (talk) 23:02, 14 May 2021 (UTC)